Lincoln was historian and economist enough to know that a substantial portion of this wealth had accumulated in the hands of the descendants of New Englanders engaged in the slave trade.

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

The equation was simple: wealth brought them happiness, and their united front to the world was their warning that they meant to keep everything they had, let no one in on the secrets.

Agrarianism claimed agriculture was the source of all wealth and called for the wide distribution of land as the foundation of democracy and freedom.

Roser Segimon was the wealthy widow of Josep Guardiola, an Indiano, a term applied locally to the Catalans returning from the American colonies with tremendous wealth.

" Agrippina struck down a series of victims ; no man or woman was safe if she suspected rivalry or desired their wealth.

Cuba and Puerto Rico, reached tremendous levels of development and wealth, to the point that Spain's First Train was between Havana and Camaguey, and the world's first telegraph was in Puerto Rico, as Samuel Morse lived there with his daughter, married to a Puerto Rican businessman.

The wealth of Amathus was derived partly from its grain partly from its sheep and copper mines, of which traces can be seen inland.

During the lifetime of Muhammad, he was involved in several campaigns such as the Battle of Uhud, the Battle of the Trench, the Invasion of Banu Qurayza, Battle of Khaybar, the Conquest of Mecca, the Battle of Hunayn, the Siege of Ta ' if, and the Battle of Tabuk where he was reported to have given all of his wealth for the preparation of this expedition.

One reason that financial officials were elected was that any money embezzled could be recovered from their estates ; election in general strongly favoured the rich, but in this case wealth was virtually a prerequisite.

It does seem clear that possession of slaves allowed even poorer Athenians — owning a few slaves was by no means equated with wealth — to devote more of their time to political life.

The first part was the gathering and the accumulation of wealth.

The second part was for the subsequent distribution of this wealth to benevolent causes.

A dismissive allusion in the text to the " wealth of Hungary " has suggested the hypothesis that it was written after 1184, at the time when Bela III of Hungary had sent to the French court a statement of his income and had proposed marriage to Marie's sister Marguerite of France, but before 1186, when his proposal was accepted.

Eudoxia's influence was strongly opposed by John Chrysostom, the Patriarch of Constantinople, who felt that she had used her family's wealth to gain control over the Emperor.

For years, it was confidently counted on that this spot, and the railroad of which it was the terminus, were going to prove the permanent seat of business and wealth that belong to such enterprises.

An attempt at negotiations soon followed in which it is likely that Abd al-Rahman was offered the hand of al-Fihri's daughter in marriage and great wealth.

The divorces cost him much of his wealth, but Lerner bears primary responsibility for his financial ups and downs, and was apparently less than truthful about his financial fecklessness.

The reality is that Micheline Musseli Pozzo di Borgo, a French aristocrat who at 20 was France's youngest lawyer ever, brought considerable wealth to her marriage to Lerner and lost most of it through him, including nearly $ 600, 000 from the sale of her Parisian apartment, which Lerner placed in investments that either failed or were looted by him during periods of financial desperation.

The campaign would sever the chain of communication that connected Britain with India, an essential part of her Empire whose trade links generated the wealth Britain required to prosecute the war successfully.

Moreover, bananas are grown and marketed mostly by international corporations, which keep the bulk of wealth generated.

The wealth generated by maritime trade spurred the rise of organized kingdoms on the island, some of which had grown quite powerful by the 17th century.

Money laundering often occurs in three steps: first, cash is introduced into the financial system by some means (" placement "), the second involves carrying out complex financial transactions in order to camouflage the illegal source (" layering "), and the final step entails acquiring wealth generated from the transactions of the illicit funds (" integration ").

Barbosa also highlighted the abundance of meat, wheat, barley, horses, and fruit on the coastal markets, which generated enormous wealth for the merchants.

Barbaso also highlighted the abundance of meat, wheat, barley, horses, and fruit on the coastal markets, which generated enormous wealth for the merchants.

Sudan infrastructure is at a relatively good because of oil wealth generated.

Modern buddings in Khartoum are on the rise due to the oil wealth generated.

Many Aristocratic Peerages and their homes are parts of estates, owned and run by the title holder with moneys generated by the land, rents, or other sources wealth.

Elsewhere in Africa, trouble developed in Nigeria, brought about by the ethnic diversity of the country and the wealth being generated by the nascent oil industry.

Chowkham has generated wealth from plywood business to a degree that once it was the richest village in Asia.

Because of the great wealth being generated by oil, an estimated 60 tribal members were killed as whites tried to gain their headrights, royalties or land.

Developed as tobacco and cotton plantations, the county generated considerable wealth in the antebellum years, built on the labor of slaves.

The wealth generated by the sale of the produce belongs to the Gods and hence is Apaurusheya or impersonal.

The second hotel, the Aldridge ( currently a retirement center for senior citizens ), built in 1928 at the northwest corner of 9th and Bell streets, was a result of the wealth and growth generated by the oil boom of the 1920s, as was the four-story Masonic Temple Office Building, which was constructed in 1929 directly south of the Alridge Hotel.

As a result of vast wealth generated by various aspects of the lumber industry and financiers Smethport was blessed with numerous exquisite mansions.

The city ruled that buildings on Central should be built from brick, even though Marshfield had been largely built on wealth generated by lumber.

The wealth generated during this period resulted in the construction of several prestigious hotels throughout Fremantle ( see heritage buildings ).

Warehouses and dwellings were built at Braye, and the export of cattle generated wealth for the economy.

They generated the wealth necessary to found schools, libraries and pay for young Greeks to study at the universities of Western Europe.

In various mixed economies, the revenue generated by state-run or state-owned enterprises are used for various state endeavors ; typically the revenue generated by state and government agencies goes into a sovereign wealth fund.

* The establishment of the Medici Bank and the subsequent trade it generated brought unprecedented wealth to a single Italian city, Florence.